What job would you have today if it's the career you picked at age 6?

Me, I was gonna to be an Astrologer although at the time I didn't know the difference between an Astronomer (which is technically what I thought I would be doing) and an Astrologer.

I probably be dead and buried before we have spaceships though

LOL

Oddly enough, it's a hobby for me now.

If we'd waited until I was 8, I was going to be a singer (ha haha ha -- I'm utterly tone deaf) and an actress.

:crazy:

instead of a space cadet.
Isn't that what everybody was dreaming about in 1968?

Now, I'm the next best thing...a genealogist!

fsc

Oh, you said genealogist.

I wanted to be a girl detective so very badly -- it stayed with me well into my teen years, when I joined the Police Activities League as a police cadet.

...and a stewardess. :)

After several twists and turns, and degrees and jobs in other areas, I am near completing an architecture degree. I currently work for a construction company, and may go to an architecture firm once my next big project is done.

I loved bugs and actually started off college intending to study insects.

probably an astronaut or a baseball player (the Twins just won the 1987 World Series when I was 6).

:D

I'm close; I'm an editor of novels now. And I'm free to write a novel anytime. :-)

:-)

which I actually did do for a while, for fun though, not as a career. Although I am psychotically competitive. :) Didn't really want to be a full on cowboy though. Just a bull rider. :)

Bulls scare the bejeebus out of me.

I had the opportunity, as a teen, to participate on a very small cattle drive. Once I got near those bulls - eh, let's say it was brown trousers time. :D I was always a very confident (horse) rider, so that got me through.

I did see some bull riding up close at a couple of stampedes...either you're incredibly brave, or nuts. :rofl:

It's not bad if you grow up around that stuff. I used to ride steers and cows every once in a while in rodeos when I was a kid, so when I was 16 and started rodeoing again it was only natural that I moved up to bulls. Sure, it is something that isn't for the meek, but it's not nearly as loony as it sounds to someone who didn't grow up around it. It wasn't that big a deal to me, because I always knew I would eventually give it a shot. I basically had to retire involuntarily because of injuries and I was more serious about my wrestling career too. Wrestling is actually crazier than riding bulls, imo. I did stuff in training etc, that I couldn't imagine doing now, lol. (running through waist high snow drifts and losing 14 pounds in 4 days? WTF was I thinking?) :)

that would make you an ordinary Canadian kid! ;)

so that probably explains it. :)

a nun.

But I am now in a career that I would have probably picked as a second choice, a copy editor, since I love to read.

hmmmmmmmmm.

One with special powers of course...

Kinda just makes you a SubparHero wouldn't it

:shrug:

Just buttloads of cash....

but as I aged I became scared of both swimming in deep water and spiders, so that screwed that one up. However, I think I could be like Batman maybe.

:D

They get all the GOOD stuff, and it's free!

Instead I became a stuffy old engineer.

Should have gone with my first plan. :)

I had a strong calling to be a minister until I was 15 and discovered computers.

Not a firefighter mind you, I wanted to be the truck.

Really, its quite common.

That was age 6, mind you.

:D

avast me hardies!

Its not too late!!!!

I thought I would be a brilliant teacher and that all the kids would like me.

like Merv Griffin.

Late 6: I'd be an airline pilot or an astronaut.

Was craaaaazy about airplanes. Still am.

I wanted an elephant so badly. I used to even pray for one.

Bart wins a Radio contest where he can either take $1000 or an Elephant and Bart decides he wants the elephant.

That has to be one of my all-time favorite episodes!

I have mixed emotions about learning that Bart and I agree on something. :hi:

A QUEEN-SIZED ballerina, in something bigger than a 2-2.

I never could commit.

or Disk Jockey.....

In reality I became a medical research scientist.

Maybe even the commish!

D-cups and all. Something tells me I'd be a ballerina who didn't get much work! :-)

I also wanted to be a knight. So on the nights I wasn't dancing Swan Lake in my bust-enhanced tutu, I'd be slaying dragons. (Clearly I had very strange ideas about what grown-ups actually did when they went to work every day.)

In real life: I took ballet lessons as a kid, but was kicked out due to lack of flexibility. However, I do play in a medieval recreation organization on the weekends, so at least one of those dreams kind of came true!

Damn. Mine didn't start popping out until I was 9 or 10.

Alas, practicality took hold, and so it never happened. Do dance recreationally, though...the real world can't take everything!

which would have been amazing since I'm 5'3'' and female

I'd be playing softball for the US.

When I was 6 I wanted to be Debi Thomas when I grew up.

I used to play both sports from a young age and always watched them on TV with my dad whenever they were on.

and my legions of fans.

young. My family watched a movie with a "madam" and I thought they got to dress wildly and sit around sallons in the Old West. That seemed to be where all the fun was in those movies. They always seemed respectable to me. I didn't know anything about the sex, then.

Perhaps I meant geologist. I loooooved rocks.

player.
In Midland Tx. a Rockhound could be either.

what can I say? I loved donuts...:shrug:

This was at the height of Apollo.

Yes, I thought that was an actual job. Later, I learned that the only way I could get to do that was if I started a nonprofit organization and I can't seem to figure out how to do that, unfortunately. I'd still love to do that for a living. Or become a wildlife photographer.

:)

a physicist, a chemist or Captain Kirk. I ended up being a philosophicist, ermm, philosopher. :shrug:

When I was young I assumed that we would have a female President by now so I settled on the idea of being the second female Prez.

An Irish-Luxembourgisch-German-Swiss-French-Canadian-Iroquois one.

:shrug:

a show on the Food Network.

I could out-predict the weatherheads on TV just by reading the vitals and then going outside to "read" the vitals again, usually on my face and with my nose. Of course, those skills would be worthless in a meteorologist's job.

:hi:

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Sigh...probably could've saved the world from idiotboy in the ole WH.

Or a secretary at the bank.

Growing up in Alabama, I was the only six y/o archaeologist wannabe in my school. Most of the boys wanted to QB the Crimson Tide and then be a fireman or policeman.

Me, I had to be different: QB *West Virginia* and *then* be a world-famous archaeologist.

Now before you start tisking at what a bad mommy I had, taking me into bars and such, I lived in Manhattan, around the corner from a bar and always saw the cocktail waitresses coming to or leaving work. At 6, I was very fond of the uniform.

but then I saw The Sound of Music and wanted to be a nun.

Then I wanted to be an actress and singer. That seemed more fun.
I had to settle on being a singer!

shit, still do.

What else does a girl growing up in a land locked near desert think about?

I still wouldn't mind, with the right zoo...

but let's just say I would be omniscient. :7

I wanted to be a Marine on embassy duty.

the machine gun.

Because when I was six, my mom was my world.

When I was five I wanted to be president because Reagan was a bad man and when I grew up I was gonna show this nation how a president should do their job. I even had my campaign strategy planned. I decided I didn't want to run for any elected office when I was running for 1st gr class president I lost by one vote because Karen offered to kiss any boy that voted for her.

I thought the reefer unit on the front of the trailer was SOOOOOO cool!

and, at my age, I would have probably been the first woman in this field.

Hmmmm...as a storyteller, I guess I AM what I wanted to be at age 6!
:woohoo:

I'd be flying to Disneyland every weekend.

I used to play both sports from a young age and always watched them on TV with my dad whenever they were on.

whole year, during which time I variously wanted to be

Roy Rogers,
Santa Claus,
Roy Rogers,
generic cowboy,
The Lone Ranger,
Roy Rogers, oh, and Gabby Hayes
on edit: Sky King and Sgt. Preston of the Mounted Police

sting like a bee. Rumble young man rumble I am a bad bad man. I am duke of the world. Unfortuantely the only thing that i have in common with the greatest is that were fellow parkies.

I used to box in smokers every once in a while. Used sparring to train for wrestling too. Now that I'm older and out of shape I just marvel at how well-conditioned fighters are. I sparred with one of my younger brothers about 4 years ago and was so frickin' gassed after a few minutes it was unbelievable. I just stood hunched over in front of him with my gloves on my knees while he jabbed the hell out of me. I was so winded I couldn't even fight anymore, lol.

Sonny Rogers said I was the only man that was beat before he entered the ring.

oh lord, you kill me.

YOu weren't that bad, c'mon!!! :)

not that would be a bad thing. Ah growing up in chicago Maxwell street, LSD, st percopis getting yelled at by penguins, living on drake getting warmed by space heatters and the windy city gymnasium and the aaragorn theater. I miss those days.

:evilgrin:

What elese is there?

:D

Unfortunately I still havent figured out what said job is yet!

..it really wasn't that bad a job.

I was asked that question in some sort of contest when I was about 6. That's what I answered, despite the fact that I was a girl.


edited because "depsite" is not a real word.

Hey wait, I'm in college for that now. Not one-tenth as good at is as I thoguht I would be though.

My parents wouldn't let me take ballet, but I am a writer now!

That's exactly what I wanted to be when I was six.

When I was 6 I wanted to be Ace Frehley.